The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-04
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ton pasted on a conspicuous part OF their paper
This is not the work OF the publishers but OF an
enterprising quack doctor who Ia keS this way
Of advertising his noStrums.
IT is generally supposed in this country that
Paris has finer spectacular plays and more bril-
liant stage setting than any other city in the
world But M. Clarette, director of the Theatre
Francois, says that the London managers excel
all others in these particulars.
Two GyPsIEs were married at Macomb, ILL.,, re
| Gently. When the bridegroom was asked if he
took the woman to be his welded wife he an
swered: Just as you say" After the ceremony
the man went out of one door and the woman
out of another, and they did not appear to be
in the least interested in each other.
Mrs. JOHN TANNING found an egg on fence
near her home at Milford, ILL.,, which she took
to the house and cooked and ate. Alarming
symptoms of being poisoned soon came, and a
physician was summoned and with great diff
Guilty her life was saved. The egg, which had
arsenic ingeniously injected, was placed on the
fence for crows.
A GRATIoT COUNTY CMich) man, who cut
off couple of his fingers during his term of
service in the late unpleasantness, applied for a
pension recently on the ground that Confeder
ate bullet removed his digits. His eyes bulged
out as a special agent stuck his regimental
record under his nose, as follows: discharged
owing to self-inflicted wounds to escape duty.
ALL the villagers near Bailunda, west coast of
Africa, having big time lately. man
came from another country who claims to
be able to give them eternal life. They went
through certain perfof dances eating food that
had been bewitched, etc, going. to the grave
yard and stopping up all the holes in the graves
so that the spirits could not get out to kill any
body-women fed it to their babies.
A GERMAN WRITER has found that the present
year is the Tooth anniversary of the birth of the
waltz. In 1877 Spanish composer named Vim
cent Martin had an opera performed in Vienna
in which there was a dance which so captivated
the town that all Vienna took at once to waltz
ing, or 'valsing' as it is now common to say.
The ''tournanteN is said to have been a rudi-
mentary waltz, expressive of innocent joy"
SHORT time ago a middleaged gentleman in
Dublin presented an intelligent parrot to Miss
Angelina, whom he meant to marry. He is now
being sued for breach of promise on account of
the bird. He knocked at his financee's door.
The parrot said Come in He went in. discov-
cred strange young man sitting on the sofa
with the young lady, and then the parrot lmi-
tated a long string of kisses and laughed t1end-
ishly. The match was declared off, and the
young lady brings suit. She declares that the
parrot was wrong
IT is said, on the authority of IAN American
railway engineer" that low temperatures do not
decrease the strength of rails, as it is commonly
supposed, although it is true that accidents are
more likely to occur from broken rails in cold
weather. This is because when the ground is
frozen hard it loses its elasticity Nevertheless
something must yield when the train runs over
the road; it is the ground that yields in I'M
frozen weather; but during freeze the ground
will not yield, and the rail- as being the weakest
part of the structure, has to suffer the conse-
quences.
FEW days ago a tortoise was found on the
farm of Mr.. Henry NJ. Kepler, near MiddIetown,
Nd, which had the initials sc. S." and the
date ''1761" cut on the shell This find caused
Mr. Kepler to look up his old deeds, and among
them he found one dated 1856 conveying the
that the initial on the shell of the tortoise are
those of this former owner of the farm. How
old it was when thus marked-12G years ago
cannot be known. The tortoise was again set at
liberty by Mr.. Kepler, and in a few hours there
after had disappeared.
JABEz HALL an aged and respected planter
living near Mariana, Ark, advertised for wife
some time ago, and the answers were so numer-
GUS that he was at a loss how to choose He has
since settled the matter, however, by a very
neat and satisfactory expedent He gave each
applicant number, and, writing the numbers
on separate cards, put them in a box and shook
them up well Then he blindfolded his little
grandchid and had her draw card from the
box. He is now corresponding with the lady to
whom the card had been allotted, and it is
probable that wedding viii result.
MILE. HELENE DE RoTHscHILD, only daughter
of an unconquerable resolution to marry Capt,
Van Smesseir, a young officer in the Belgian
army. The opposition of the lady's mother and
other relatives will prevent the ceremony from
taking place before August. Mile Helene
already possesses an immense fortune, and her
dowry will ultimately amount to $50 900, a
sum which her future husband has only read of
in romances Mile. de Rothschild has pUr chased
the splendid hotel of Baron Hirsch, near the
Champs Elysees, future residence for her
self and her husband.
PROF. TRowBRIDGE's plan OF subma. inc tele.
phony, in which speech was to be transmitted
between vessels at sea without the aid of any
connecting wires has been abandoned as inn
practicable, as the system upon which Mr. Edi-
son has been experimenting in Florida is more
promising of good results In this system the
telephone signals by long and short explosive
sounds, instead of spoken words, and communi-
cations have been successfully exchanged
through the water between vessels from three
to four miles apart, with the prospect that the
working limit may be increased with improve
ment in the apparatus.
THERE are still few theorists who Justly
polygamy on the ground that more women are
born into the world than men, but the theory
has long been exploded. August Babel in his
remarkabl work, recently translated into Eng
llsh, shows That in ten States, with population
of $50, 000, 0O0 the excess of females over males
was only 100000; and when we remember the
extent to which men outnumber women in the
100000 more men than women, the natural
inference is that if the Inhabitants of the earth
were distributed according to the sexes men
and women would be found to exist in about
equal proportions.
THE Shah of Persis-has authorized the Ameri-
can missionaries 20 estaAis&s -. 1eheran a hos
pital in which, w:.--I.a 7S..ezt 20 nationality or
religion, all appiiosats for rcstcf may be re-
ceived for treatment. DR.. Torrenee, physician
to the mission, has been appointed director of
the hospital, and an appeal is made for means
TO place it upon working basis For immediate
use $4,000 is needed, and $4,000 will be neces-
sary to complete the establishment. AS a mark
of appreciation Of Dr. TorTence's zeal and de-
votion. applied gratuitouslv for many years in
the relief of distress, the Shah has named him
Grand Officer of the Order of the Lion and Sun
of Persia.
JOAN OF ARC still lives in the memory of her
fellow-countrymen, and the attempt made some
time ago by an erratic writer to deprecate the
fame of the Maid Of Orleans was followed by
such storm Of indignation that the profana-
ton is not likely TO be repeated for many a year
The old town from which the savior of France
took her title is celebrating the four hundred
and flfty-eighth anniversary of its deliverance
from the invader with a series of splendid fetes
The principal squares and streets are ablaze
with banners and orifammes; the air resounds
with the peals of bells and with martial music;
cannon are saluting the memory Of the valiant
maid and Yesterday. In onenine the fastvft;aa